I need to tail a bunch of application logs that aren't in syslog format and send them to a remote server. I've configured this: source s_tail { file(/var/log/chaotic_debug_log follow_freq(1) flags(no-parse)); }; destination remote { tcp("my_syslogserver.com" port(514)); }; log { source(s_tail); destination(remote); }; syslog-ng starts successfully and doesn't complain, but nothing happens... no logs appear remotely. I did a tcpdump on the syslog server and nothing is showing up from this box, so I did an strace on syslog-ng and didn't see the log files being opened. Running lsof on those files didn't show anything but the writing program. syslog-ng just isn't reading the files. Is something wrong with my config? How might I troubleshoot this? The syslog-ng version is 2.1.4 on CentOS 5.4. Also, to have syslog tail multiple files, do I just add multiple entries, like this? source s_tail { file(/var/log/chaotic_debug_log1 follow_freq(1) flags(no-parse)); }; source s_tail { file(/var/log/chaotic_debug_log2 follow_freq(1) flags(no-parse)); }; source s_tail { file(/var/log/chaotic_debug_log3 follow_freq(1) flags(no-parse)); }; Any help is appreciated. Thanks!